TMM K630 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Medina County, Texas (29.0° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anacacho Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Swezey and Sullivan (2004) correlate the Anacacho LS to the Baculites sp. (weak flank ribs), Baculites sp. (smooth) zone, which is late upper Campanian in Gradstein et al., 2004, through the Baculites maclearni zone., which is middle Campanian in Gradstein et al., 2004.

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: W. P. Elder. 1996. Bivalves and Gastropods from the Middle Campanian Anacacho Limestone, south central Texas. Journal of Paleontology 70(2):247-271 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3616: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 05.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus balticus Bohm 1907 clam